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ICS 143A - Principles of
Operating Systems
(Spring 2020)
Lecture 1 - Introduction and Overview
MWF 11:00- 11:50 a.m.
Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian
( nalini@uci.edu )
[lecture slides contains some content adapted from :
Silberschatz textbook authors, John Kubiatowicz (Berkeley)
Anderson textbook, John Ousterhout(Stanford), Prof. Ardalan
Sani, )
]
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ICS 143A Spring 2020 Staff
Instructor:
Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Venkat)
( nalini@uci.edu )
Teaching Assistants:
Biswadeep Maity (Deep) (maityb@uci.edu)
Saehanseul Yi (Hans) (saehansy@uci.edu)
Andrew Chio (achio@uci.edu)
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Course logistics and details
● Course Web page -
● http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ics143
● All new announcements and updates will be on class webpage
● Lectures – MWF 11:00 – 11:50, on zoom
● Zoom link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/568633190
● Discussions
● Tuesday 5pm - 6pm; 7pm- 8pm
● Zoom Link:
● 5 - 6 pm session: https://uci.zoom.us/j/556715006
● 7- 8 pm session: https://uci.zoom.us/j/563851913
4. Course logistics and details
● ICS 143 Textbook
● Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition, Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Addison-Wesley
Inc (Eighth, Seventh,Sixth and Fifth editions, and Java Versions are fine ).
● Other Suggested Books
● Modern Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum
● Lubomir Bic, online book -- zybooks
● https://www.zybooks.com/catalog/operating-systems/
● Operating Systems: Principles and Practice, by T. Anderson and M. Dahlin
(second edition)
● Piazza for group discussions (https://piazza.com/uci/spring2020/cs143)
● Q/A, Student discussions, monitored by ICS143A staff
● Avoid duplicate posts, Use clear, descriptive titles
● Please be respectful to each other
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Course logistics and details
● Homeworks and Assignments
● 4 written homeworks in the quarter
● 1 programming assignment (knowledge of C, C++ or Java
required).
● Handed out at midterm; submit during Finals Week
● Multistep assignment – don’t start in last week of classes!!!
● Late homeworks will not be accepted.
● All submissions will be made using Gradescope for the course
● Tests
● Midterm - tentatively Wednesday, Week 6
● Detailed format and tools to be used -- TBD
● Final Exam - as per UCI course catalog
● June 9th (1:30 - 3:30 pm)
● Detailed format and tools to be used -- TBD
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ICS 143 Grading Policy
● Homeworks - 40% (10% each)
● Programming Assignment - 10%
● released Week 6
● Midterm - 20% of the final grade
● Tentatively Wed, Week 6 during lecture
● Final exam - 30% of the final grade
● Per UCI course catalog, Jun 9th (1:30 - 3:30 pm)
● 3 In-class micro-quizzes (not graded, except in case of borderline grades)
Final assignment of grades will be based on a curve.
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Lecture Schedule
● Week 1:
• Introduction to Operating Systems, Computer System
Structures, Operating System Structures
● Week 2 : Process Management
• Processes and Threads, CPU Scheduling
● Week 3: Process Management
• CPU Scheduling, Process Synchronization
● Week 4: Process Management
• Process Synchronization
● Week 5: Process Management
• Process Synchronization, Deadlocks
9. Other Logistics
● Office Hours
● Prof. V - Tuesdays (11 am - 12 noon)
● TA office hours – Mon, Wed. Thurs (to be announced on
website)
● Slides
● Available as draft before lecture, minor modifications likely
● If there are missed lectures
● Alternatives will be arranged
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Introduction
● What is an operating system?
● Operating Systems History
● Simple Batch Systems
● Multiprogrammed Batch Systems
● Time-sharing Systems
● Personal Computer Systems
● Parallel and Distributed Systems
● Real-time Systems
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What is an Operating System?
● An OS is a program that acts an intermediary
between the user of a computer and computer
hardware.
● Major cost of general purpose computing is
software.
● OS simplifies and manages the complexity of running
application programs efficiently.
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Computer System
Components
● Hardware
● Provides basic computing resources (CPU, memory, I/O devices).
● Operating System
● Controls and coordinates the use of hardware among application programs.
● Application Programs
● Solve computing problems of users (compilers, database systems, video games,
business programs such as banking software).
● Users
● People, machines, other computers
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Abstract View of System
System and Application Programs
Operating System
Computer
Hardware
User
1 User
2
User
3
User
n
compiler assembler Text editor Database
system
...
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Operating System Views
● Resource allocator
● to allocate resources (software and hardware) of the
computer system and manage them efficiently.
● Control program
● Controls execution of user programs and operation of I/O
devices.
● Kernel
● The program that executes forever (everything else is an
application with respect to the kernel).
15. Operating system roles
• Referee
• Resource allocation among users, applications
• Isolation of different users, applications from each other
• Communication between users, applications
• Illusionist
• Each application appears to have the entire machine to itself
• Infinite number of processors, (near) infinite amount of
memory, reliable storage, reliable network transport
• Glue
• Libraries, user interface widgets, …
• Reduces cost of developing software
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16. Example: file systems
• Referee
• Prevent users from accessing each other’s files without
permission
• Illusionist
• Files can grow (nearly) arbitrarily large
• Files persist even when the machine crashes in the middle of a
save
• Glue
• Named directories, printf, …
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Goals of an Operating System
● Simplify the execution of user programs and
make solving user problems easier.
● Use computer hardware efficiently.
● Allow sharing of hardware and software resources.
● Make application software portable and versatile.
● Provide isolation, security and protection among
user programs.
● Improve overall system reliability
● error confinement, fault tolerance, reconfiguration.
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Why should I study Operating
Systems?
● Need to understand interaction between the hardware
and applications
● New applications, new hardware..
● Inherent aspect of society today
● Need to understand basic principles in the design of
computer systems
● efficient resource management, security, flexibility
● Increasing need for specialized operating systems
● e.g. embedded operating systems for devices - cell phones,
sensors and controllers
● real-time operating systems - aircraft control, multimedia
services
22. Hardware Complexity
Increases
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Moore’s Law: 2X
transistors/Chip Every 1.5 years
Moore’s
Law
From Berkeley OS course
From Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative
Approach, 4th edition, Sept. 15, 2006
Intel Multicore Chipsets
23. OS needs to keep pace with
hardware improvements
23
$/
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Operating System Spectrum
● Monitors and Small Kernels
● special purpose and embedded systems, real-time systems
● Batch and multiprogramming
● Timesharing
● workstations, servers, minicomputers, timeframes
● Transaction systems
● Personal Computing Systems
● Mobile Platforms, devices (of all sizes)
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Early Systems - Bare Machine
(1950s)
● Structure
● Large machines run from console
● Single user system
• Programmer/User as operator
● Paper tape or punched cards
● Early software
● Assemblers, compilers, linkers, loaders, device drivers, libraries of
common subroutines.
● Secure execution
● Inefficient use of expensive resources
● Low CPU utilization, high setup time.
From John Ousterhout slides
Hardware – expensive ; Human – cheap
28. Simple Batch Systems
(1960’s)
● Reduce setup time by batching jobs with similar requirements.
● Add a card reader, Hire an operator
● User is NOT the operator
● Automatic job sequencing
● Forms a rudimentary OS.
● Resident Monitor
● Holds initial control, control transfers to job and then back to monitor.
● Problem
● Need to distinguish job from job and data from program.
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From John Ousterhout slides
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Supervisor/Operator Control
● Secure monitor that controls job processing
● Special cards indicate what to do.
● User program prevented from performing I/O
● Separate user from computer
● User submits card deck
● cards put on tape
● tape processed by operator
● output written to tape
● tape printed on printer
● Problems
● Long turnaround time - up to 2 DAYS!!!
● Low CPU utilization
• I/O and CPU could not overlap; slow mechanical devices.
IBM 7094
From John Ousterhout slides
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Batch Systems - Issues
● Solutions to speed up I/O:
● Offline Processing
● load jobs into memory from tapes, card reading and line printing are done
offline.
● Spooling
● Use disk (random access device) as large storage for reading as many input
files as possible and storing output files until output devices are ready to
accept them.
● Allows overlap - I/O of one job with computation of another.
● Introduces notion of a job pool that allows OS choose next job to run so as
to increase CPU utilization.
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Batch Systems - I/O
completion
● How do we know that I/O is complete?
● Polling:
● Device sets a flag when it is busy.
● Program tests the flag in a loop waiting for completion of
I/O.
● Interrupts:
● On completion of I/O, device forces CPU to jump to a specific
instruction address that contains the interrupt service
routine.
● After the interrupt has been processed, CPU returns to code
it was executing prior to servicing the interrupt.
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Multiprogramming
● Use interrupts to run multiple programs
simultaneously
● When a program performs I/O, instead of polling, execute
another program till interrupt is received.
● Requires secure memory, I/O for each program.
● Requires intervention if program loops
indefinitely.
● Requires CPU scheduling to choose the next job
to run.
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Timesharing
● Programs queued for execution in FIFO order.
● Like multiprogramming, but timer device
interrupts after a quantum (timeslice).
● Interrupted program is returned to end of FIFO
● Next program is taken from head of FIFO
● Control card interpreter replaced by command
language interpreter.
Hardware – getting cheaper; Human – getting expensive
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Timesharing (cont.)
● Interactive (action/response)
● when OS finishes execution of one command, it seeks
the next control statement from user.
● File systems
● online filesystem is required for users to access data and
code.
● Virtual memory
● Job is swapped in and out of memory to disk.
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Personal Computing Systems
● Single user systems, portable.
● I/O devices - keyboards, mice, display screens, small
printers.
● Laptops and palmtops, Smart cards, Wireless devices.
● Single user systems may not need advanced CPU
utilization or protection features.
● Advantages:
● user convenience, responsiveness, ubiquitous
Hardware – cheap ; Human – expensive
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Parallel Systems
● Multiprocessor systems with more than one CPU
in close communication.
● Improved Throughput, economical, increased
reliability.
● Kinds:
• Vector and pipelined
• Symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing
• Distributed memory vs. shared memory
● Programming models:
• Tightly coupled vs. loosely coupled ,message-based vs. shared
variable
38. Parallel Computing Systems
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Climate modeling,
earthquake
simulations, genome
analysis, protein
folding, nuclear fusion
research, …..
ILLIAC 2 (UIllinois)
Connection Machine (MIT)
IBM Blue Gene
Tianhe-1(China)
K-computer(Japan)
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Distributed Systems
● Distribute computation among many processors.
● Loosely coupled -
• no shared memory, various communication lines
● client/server architectures
● Advantages:
• resource sharing
• computation speed-up
• reliability
• communication - e.g. email
● Applications - digital libraries, digital multimedia
Hardware – very cheap ; Human – very expensive
40. Distributed Computing Systems
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Globus Grid Computing Toolkit Cloud Computing Offerings
PlanetLab Gnutella P2P Network
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Real-time systems
● Correct system function depends on timeliness
● Feedback/control loops
● Sensors and actuators
● Hard real-time systems -
● Failure if response time too long.
● Secondary storage is limited
● Soft real-time systems -
● Less accurate if response time is too long.
● Useful in applications such as multimedia, virtual reality.
42. A personal computer today
● Super AMOLED display
● Capacitive touchscreen
(multitouch)
● Audio (speaker, microphone)
● Vibration
● S pen
● 4G LTE
● NFC
● WiFi
● Bluetooth
● Infrared
● 64 GB internal storage (extended
by microSD)
● Adreno 330 GPU
● Hexagon DSP
● Multimedia processor
● 13 MP front camera
● 2 MP back camera
● Accelerometer
● Gyroscope
● Proximity sensor
● Compass
● Barometer
● Temperature sensor
● Humidity sensor
● Gesture Sensor
● GPS
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interaction
43. A personal computer today
● Super AMOLED display
● Capacitive touchscreen
(multitouch)
● Audio (speaker, microphone)
● Vibration
● S pen
● 4G LTE
● NFC
● WiFi
● Bluetooth
● Infrared
● 64 GB internal storage (extended
by microSD)
● Adreno 330 GPU
● Hexagon DSP
● Multimedia processor
● 13 MP front camera
● 2 MP back camera
● Accelerometer
● Gyroscope
● Proximity sensor
● Compass
● Barometer
● Temperature sensor
● Humidity sensor
● Gesture Sensor
● GPS
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sensing
44. A personal computer today
● Super AMOLED display
● Capacitive touchscreen
(multitouch)
● Audio (speaker, microphone)
● Vibration
● S pen
● 4G LTE
● NFC
● WiFi
● Bluetooth
● Infrared
● 64 GB internal storage (extended
by microSD)
● Adreno 330 GPU
● Hexagon DSP
● Multimedia processor
● 13 MP front camera
● 2 MP back camera
● Accelerometer
● Gyroscope
● Proximity sensor
● Compass
● Barometer
● Temperature sensor
● Humidity sensor
● Gesture Sensor
● GPS
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connectivity
45. A personal computer today
● Super AMOLED display
● Capacitive touchscreen
(multitouch)
● Audio (speaker, microphone)
● Vibration
● S pen
● 4G LTE
● NFC
● WiFi
● Bluetooth
● Infrared
● 64 GB internal storage (extended
by microSD)
● Adreno 330 GPU
● Hexagon DSP
● Multimedia processor
● 13 MP front camera
● 2 MP back camera
● Accelerometer
● Gyroscope
● Proximity sensor
● Compass
● Barometer
● Temperature sensor
● Humidity sensor
● Gesture Sensor
● GPS
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acceleration
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Summary of lecture
● What is an operating system?
● Early Operating Systems
● Simple Batch Systems
● Multiprogrammed Batch Systems
● Time-sharing Systems
● Personal Computer Systems
● Parallel and Distributed Systems
● Real-time Systems
50. Computer System & OS Structures
• Computer System Organization
• Operational Flow and hardware protection
• System call and OS services
• Storage architecture
• OS organization
• OS tasks
• Virtual Machines
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54. I/O devices
• I/O devices and the CPU execute concurrently.
• Each device controller is in charge of a particular
device type
• Each device controller has a local buffer. I/O is from the
device to local buffer of controller
• CPU moves data from/to main memory to/from the
local buffers
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55. Interrupts
• Interrupt transfers control to the
interrupt service routine
• Interrupt Service Routine: Segments of
code that determine action to be taken for
interrupt.
• Determining the type of interrupt
• Polling: same interrupt handler called for
all interrupts, which then polls all devices
to figure out the reason for the interrupt
• Interrupt Vector Table: different interrupt
handlers will be executed for different
interrupts
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56. Interrupt handling
• OS preserves the state of the CPU
• stores registers and the program counter (address of
interrupted instruction).
• What happens to a new interrupt when the CPU
is handling one interrupt?
• Incoming interrupts can be disabled while another interrupt is
being processed. In this case, incoming interrupts may be lost or
may be buffered until they can be delivered.
• Incoming interrupts can be masked (i.e., ignored) by software.
• Incoming interrupts are delivered, i.e., nested interrupts.
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57. Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Memory
CPU
I/O devices
I/O instructions
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• Typically used for I/O devices
with a lot of data to transfer (in
order to reduce load on CPU).
• Device controller transfers
blocks of data from buffer
storage directly to main
memory without CPU
intervention.
• Device controller interrupts
CPU on completion of I/O
• Only one interrupt is generated
per block, rather than one per
byte (or word).
60. Process Abstraction and rights
• Process: an instance of a program, running
with limited rights
• Address space: set of rights of a process
• Memory that the process can access
• Other permissions the process has (e.g., which
system calls it can make, what files it can access)
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64. Should a process be able to
execute any instructions?
● No
● Can alter system configuration
● Can access unauthorized memory
● Can access unauthorized I/O
● etc.
● How to prevent?
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65. Dual-mode operation
• Provide hardware support to differentiate between at
least two modes of operation:
1. User mode -- execution done on behalf of a user.
2. Kernel mode (monitor/supervisor/system mode) --
execution done on behalf of operating system.
• “Privileged” instructions are only executable in the
kernel mode
• Executing privileged instructions in the user mode
“traps” into the kernel mode
●Trap is a software generated interrupt caused either by
an error or a user request
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66. Dual-mode operation(cont.)
• Mode bit added to computer
hardware to indicate the current
mode: kernel(0) or user(1).
• When an interrupt or trap
occurs, hardware switches to
kernel mode.
User
Kernel
Set
user
mode
Interrupt/
fault
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68. CPU Protection
• Timer - interrupts computer after specified period to
ensure that OS maintains control.
• Timer is decremented every clock tick.
• When timer reaches a value of 0, an interrupt occurs.
• Timer is commonly used to implement time
sharing.
• Timer is also used to compute the current time.
• Programming the timer can only be done in the
kernel since it requires privileged instructions.
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70. Process
Address
Space
Process address space
• Address space ⇒ the set of accessible
addresses + state associated with them:
• For a 32-bit processor there are 232 = 4 billion
addresses
• What happens when you read or write to an
address?
• Perhaps Nothing
• Perhaps acts like regular memory
• Perhaps ignores writes
• Perhaps causes I/O operation
• (Memory-mapped I/O)
• Perhaps causes exception (fault)
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(code)
72. Providing the Illusion of Separate Address Spaces
Proc 1
Virtual
Address
Space 1
Proc 2
Virtual
Address
Space 2
Code
Data
Heap
Stack
Code
Data
Heap
Stack
Data 2
Stack 1
Heap 1
kernel heap &
Stacks
Code 1
Stack 2
Data 1
Heap 2
Code 2
kernel code
kernel data
Translation Map 1 Translation Map 2
Physical Address Space 72
73. Address translation and memory
protection
Processor Translation
Physical
Memory
Data
Data
Valid
Invalid
Raise
Exception
Physical
address
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Virtual
address
74. Memory Protection
• When a process is running, only memory in that process
address space must be accessible.
• When executing in kernel mode, the kernel has
unrestricted access to all memory.
• Must provide memory protection at least for the
interrupt vector and the interrupt service routines.
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75. Memory Protection: base and limit
• To provide memory protection, add
two registers that determine the
range of legal addresses a program
may address.
• Base Register - holds smallest
legal physical memory address.
• Limit register - contains the size
of the range.
• Memory outside the defined range
is protected.
• Sometimes called Base and
Bounds method
0
300040
420940
1024000
300040
120900
Base register
Limit register
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77. Virtual Address translation using the
Base and Bounds method
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The load instructions for the base and limit
registers are privileged instructions.
78. I/O Protection
• All I/O instructions are privileged instructions.
• Must ensure that a user program could never gain
control of the computer in kernel mode, e.g., a user
program must not be able to store a new address
in the interrupt vector.
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79. Question
• Given the I/O instructions are privileged, how do
users perform I/O?
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80. Question
• Given the I/O instructions are privileged, how do
users perform I/O?
• Via system calls - the method used by a process to
request action by the operating system.
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81. System Calls
• User code can issue a syscall, which causes a trap
• Kernel handles the syscall
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82. System Calls
• Interface between applications
and the OS.
• Application uses an
assembly instruction to trap into
the kernel
• Some higher level languages
provide wrappers for system
calls (e.g., C)
• System calls pass parameters
between an and OS via registers
or memory, memory tables or
stack.
• Linux has about 300 system
calls
• read(), write(), open(), close(),
fork(), exec(), ioctl(),…..
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83. System services or system
programs
• Convenient environment for program development
and execution.
• Command Interpreter (i.e., shell) - parses/executes other
system programs
• Window management
• System libraries, e.g., libc
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84. Command Interpreter System
• Commands that are given to the operating system
via command statements that execute
• Process creation and deletion, I/O handling, secondary
storage management, main memory Management, file
system access, protection, networking, etc.
• Obtains the next command and executes it.
• Programs that read and interpret control
statements also called -
• Command-line interpreter, shell (in UNIX)
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85. Storage Structure
• Main memory - only large storage media that the
CPU can access directly.
• Secondary storage - has large nonvolatile storage
capacity.
• Magnetic disks - rigid metal or glass platters covered with
magnetic recording material.
• Disk surface is logically divided into tracks, subdivided into
sectors.
• Disk controller determines logical interaction between device
and computer.
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86. Storage Hierarchy
• Storage systems are organized in a hierarchy
based on
• Speed
• Cost
• Volatility
• Caching - process of copying information into
faster storage system; main memory can be
viewed as fast cache for secondary storage.
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88. OS Task: Process Management
• Process - fundamental concept in OS
• Process is an instance of a program in execution.
• Process needs resources - CPU time, memory, files/data
and I/O devices.
• OS is responsible for the following process
management activities.
• Process creation and deletion
• Process suspension and resumption
• Process synchronization and interprocess communication
• Process interactions - deadlock detection, avoidance and
correction
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89. OS Task: Memory Management
• Main Memory is an array of addressable words or
bytes that is quickly accessible.
• Main Memory is volatile.
• OS is responsible for:
• Allocate and deallocate memory to processes.
• Managing multiple processes within memory - keep track of which
parts of memory are used by which processes. Manage the
sharing of memory between processes.
• Determining which processes to load when memory becomes
available.
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90. OS Task: Secondary Storage and I/O
Management
• Since primary storage (i.e., main memory) is
expensive and volatile, secondary storage is
required for backup.
• Disk is the primary form of secondary storage.
• OS performs storage allocation, free-space management,
etc. and disk scheduling.
• I/O system in the OS consists of
• Device driver interface that abstracts device details
• Drivers for specific hardware devices
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91. OS Task: File System Management
• File is a collection of related information -
represents programs and data.
• OS is responsible for
• File creation and deletion
• Directory creation and deletion
• Supporting primitives for file/directory manipulation.
• Mapping files to disks (secondary storage).
• Backup files on archival media (tapes).
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92. OS Task: Protection and Security
• Protection mechanisms control access of processes to user
and system resources.
• Protection mechanisms must:
• Distinguish between authorized and unauthorized use.
• Specify access controls to be imposed on use.
• Provide mechanisms for enforcement of access control.
• Security mechanisms provide trust in system and privacy
• authentication, certification, encryption etc.
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93. Operating Systems: How are they
organized?
• Simple
• Only one or two levels of code
• Layered
• Lower levels independent of upper levels
• Modular
• Core kernel with Dynamically loadable modules
• Microkernel
• OS built from many user-level processes
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94. OS Structure - Simple Approach
• MS-DOS - provides a lot of functionality in little
space.
• Not divided into modules, Interfaces and levels of
functionality are not well separated
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95. Original UNIX System Structure
• Limited structuring, has 2 separable parts
• Systems programs
• Kernel
• everything below system call interface and above physical hardware.
• Filesystem, CPU scheduling, memory management
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96. Layered OS Structure
• OS divided into number of
layers - bottom layer is
hardware, highest layer is
the user interface.
• Each layer uses functions
and services of only lower-
level layers.
• THE Operating System and
Linux Kernel has successive
layers of abstraction.
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97. Monolithic vs. Microkernel OS
• Monolithic OSes have large kernels with a lot of components
• Linux, Windows, Mac
• Microkernels moves as much from the kernel into “user” space
• Small core OS components running at kernel level
• OS Services built from many independent user-level processes
• Communication between modules with message passing
• Benefits:
• Easier to extend a microkernel
• Easier to port OS to new architectures
• More reliable and more secure (less code is running in kernel mode)
• Fault Isolation (parts of kernel protected from other par
• Detriments:
• Performance overhead severe for naïve implementation
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98. A microkernel OS
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Slide adapted from http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~walpole/class/cs533/fall2015/home.html
101. Virtual Machines
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• Use cases
●Resource configuration
●Running multiple OSes, either the same or different
OSes
●Run existing OS binaries on different architecture
102. Summary of Lecture set 1
• What is an operating system?
• Operating systems history
• Computer system and operating system structure
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